David Gray Attacks Bands For Live 8 Appearances

Insipid twitchy headed singer/songwriter David Gray has laid into performers at Live 8 - saying they have no real clue about world poverty.

Gray believes most artists taking part didn’t have genuine reasons for appearing, saying: "It's a garish sight to me to have people who don't know what they are talking about, patronising their audience about changing the world. I don't believe in soundbite politics."

Gray says he would prefer to pay more tax so governments would have greater funds to tackle poverty. He argued: “Otherwise where does this money come from? World leaders? Do they go to the special 'world leader' pot and get the money? It's just… ridiculous."

Yesterday Elton John called the event an anti-climax and said that Hyde Park was a “charisma free zone”.